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The Best Bluetooth Speaker Is $20 Off

Finish summer strong with a discount on the JBL Flip 7.

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Kawhi Leonard And Los Angeles Clippers Implicated In Low-Effort Tree-Planting Scheme

Kawhi Leonard And Los Angeles Clippers Implicated In Low-Effort Tree-Planting Scheme
The Los Angeles Clippers are alleged to have set up a no-show job for star forward Kawhi Leonard to help convince him to sign with the team. And not just any no-show job, but a $28 million, multi-year gig with a carbon credit/tree-planting company that has since gone bankrup...

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How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer

How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of respiratory illnesses. You might be interested in conveniently booking an appo...

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Google AI Falsely Says YouTuber Visited Israel, Forcing Him to Deal With Backlash

Google AI Falsely Says YouTuber Visited Israel, Forcing Him to Deal With Backlash

YouTuber Benn Jordan has never been to Israel, but Google's AI summary said he'd visited and made a video about it. Then the backlash started.

WIRED
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This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements

Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ dancing humanoid, can now use a single model for walking and grasping—a significant step toward general-purpose robot algorithms.

Scripting News podcast
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Last chance for the open web

I wrote a blog post last week about WordPress and the open web, and what I want to do there. It's the first time I've laid out in one place my plan for rekindling the open web, with my new editor providing a really easy way to write for the open web that does not otherwise e...

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Podcast: Last chance for the open web.

The Brian Lehrer Show
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How President Trump Has Waged 'War' on the Bureaucracy

Ben Smith, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, and the author of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral (Penguin Press, 2023), shares his analysis for how the president has come for civil servants, and what it might mean for the government bureaucracy in the future.


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How to Make OpenTelemetry Better in the Browser

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This is the second of two parts. Read Part 1: Why OpenTelemetry Is So Clunky for the Frontend In Part

The post How to Make OpenTelemetry Better in the Browser appeared first on The New Stack.

Defector
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Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Kansas City Chiefs

Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Kansas City Chiefs

Some people are fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: “The Last Great American Dynasty”

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Open Channels FM Joins as a Media Partner for CloudFest USA

Open Channels FM partners with CloudFest USA in Miami on November 5-6, highlighting keynotes, panels, and networking opportunities for cloud and hosting professionals.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Why Developers Don’t Know What Dev Ex Is

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I first heard the term “developer experience” in late 2023. Everything I had been doing “by intuition” for years suddenly

The post Why Developers Don’t Know What Dev Ex Is appeared first on The New Stack.

WIRED
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The Instagram iPad App Is Finally Here

Now you can doomscroll on a bigger screen.

Defector
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Pinball Is Getting Too Fancy

Pinball Is Getting Too Fancy
Pinball is the most romantic of arcade games. A bit of my belief in this comes from real life, but most of it comes from the movie Before Sunrise, which I spent my late teens and early 20s watching over and over alongside anyone with whom I shared an emotional connection. It...

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🎶It’s His Party and He’ll…🎶

Every time Texas Democrats have a bad election (read: every two years), blame reasonably finds its way to a person whose title suggests quite a lot of culpability—the chair of something called the Texas Democratic Party.  In reality, this person has little control over what most critics are likely focused on: the selection of individual […]

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The Brian Lehrer Show
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City Politics: Nadler's Retirement; Hochul and Trump; Charter Schools in the Mayoral Campaign

Elizabeth Kim, WNYC and Gothamist reporter, talks about the latest news in the mayoral campaign. Plus Jon Campbell, WNYC and Gothamist Albany reporter, reports on the news that longtime Manhattan Congressman Jerry Nadler will retire next year, paving the way for generational change for the coveted seat.


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Oh wow, the smaller reMarkable tablet looks really good. I think they’ve got a winner on their hands. Might still be a bit too pricey for me, but I love the size and design of it.

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AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History

AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History

"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."

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Pornhub Will Pay $5 Million Over Allegations of Hosting Child Sexual Abuse Material

Pornhub Will Pay $5 Million Over Allegations of Hosting Child Sexual Abuse Material

Pornhub's parent company Aylo and its affiliates settled a lawsuit with the FTC and Utah that alleged the company "deceived users" about abuse material on the site.